Re: Two-phase commit security restrictions

On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 11:58:21PM +0700, David Garamond wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:

> >Another approach I've been thinking about is to allow anyone that knows
> >the (user-supplied) global transaction identifier to finish the
> >transaction, and hide the gids of running transactions from regular
> >users. That way, the gid acts as a secret token that's only known by the
> >transaction manager, much like the cancel key.
>
> Personally I prefer the last. It should be infeasible to crack as long
> as the gid is long enough (e.g. sufficiently random 128bit value or
> more) and the channel between the TM and Postgres is secure.

So it is possible for a user connected to the DB to send random commit
or cancel commands, just in case she happens to hit a valid GID?

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